...comfortably composed nest from which news of the bustling world outside can be contemplated at leisure ('Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,/ Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round'). 118 Priestman writes of this double bind in the poem: 'the ideal...

...them all; I burn to set th' imprison 'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round; And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column,...

...intelligence, of which he is ignorant, why should it be "To him indifferent whether grief or joy?" Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column,...

...Queen Elizabeth. A recent new one is Queen Catherine Blend for Catherine of Braganza. Tea Equipage "Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steady column,...

...^•^•^•^••••i^•••••••-^•^•M'^^i re, and close the shutters fast, let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round and, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn throws up a skinny column . . . so let us welcome peaceful evening in. —William Cowper, The Task Pale hues and...

...quotes from William Cowper's poem of 1785, 'The Task', from which the painting's title was derived: Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column,...

...a cup that is well made and shows off the attributes of the tea you sought out in the marketplace. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round; And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column,...